Magdas Dumplings
Here is the recepie for the lovley dumplings Magda made for us at christmas.
Ingredients
to make dough you will need:
0.5kg plain flour
1 egg
some water or if prefered- milk
salt
Method
1. Mix all the ingredients and form the dough (add more water/milk if you find it too dry or more flour if too sticky)-; the dough needs to be good enough for very thin rolling, which means it won't tear when you roll it and it won't stick to the rollong pin;
2. Once rolled- use a round cutter-in practice: a cup, a glass or anything that has round shape... to cut out circles; in the middle of the circle put a filling (usually full teaspoon of filling on a 'cup' measured circle); bend the circle with a filling in half and stick the edges of formed now semi-circle (if you want to have a lovely looking finish-use a fork to press the edges, however forming it with fingers is less stressful...);
3. Put into the boiling water (when you bring the water on to boil-add some salt and a bit of oil/olive, so the dupmlings won't stick);
4. Keep the pot on a heat and once the dumplings start to "float" on the surface- take them out from the pot on a plate, separating from each other until they dry;
5. melt the butter in a souce/frying pan and add some breadcrumbs, let it fry for 1-2minutes then spread on dumplings;
now, everything you can do is just simply ENJOY YOUR MEAL! SMACZNEGO!
PS
as a filling you can use nearly everything-I did it with white soft cheese that has been mixed with 1 yolk and vanila sugar; very good alternative to this are summer friuts and berries, but also meat or veggies-anything you firnd worth experimenting!
Magdalena Rachańska
(MCA)
